tea tree

noun

a tall shrub or small tree, Leptospermum scoparium, of the myrtle family, native to New Zealand and Australia, having silky foliage when young, and bell-shaped, white flowers: often planted to prevent beach erosion.

tea tree

any of various myrtaceous trees of the genus Leptospermum, of Australia and New Zealand, that yield an oil used as an antiseptic

First recorded in 1750–60; so called from the use of its leaves as an infusion

It lives chiefly on the potato, and the Lycium barbarum, sometimes called the tea-tree, a shrub belonging to the Solanace.

One shot was enough for each hog; after receiving it he retired hastily into the tea-tree and never came out again.

Petiver considered our plant as a species of Tea tree; future observations will probably confirm his conjecture.

These pools were generally lined with patches of a narrow-leaved tea tree; and were full of basaltic pebbles.

Upon reaching the tree we found an infant swaddled in layers of tea-tree bark, lying on the ground; and three or four large yams.

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